Resistance Band Exercises

Resistance Band Exercises are for every part of your body and they work very well, for every age and every body type!

The concept is that of the old weider spring tensioners if you can remember those (Four huge springs attached at the ends by a handle. Hercules couldn't pull it apart!).

Muscles are put into light tension and compression isometrically, that is, basically under little more than their own weight. You are not fighting with unwieldy weights and the muscle is working coming out of the repetition as much as it is going into the repetition.

Isometric exercise is easy to get the hang of with the resistance bands. The most common isometric exercise that I can think of is simple - gritting your teeth. The clenched jaw is working the muscles of the face and the jaw against the friction of the jaw and the teeth. That is all isometrics are. Did you know that one of the questions on the early application forms for weight systems was "Have you ever been constipated?" Do you know why? Constipation is isometric exercise.

The are very many makes of product. Bodylastics are my favorite. I can achieve isometric tension easily with this product especially with shoulders, abs and back. Different lengths of round or flat rubber bands of different tensions and varied length are packaged with instructions. In addition to resistance bands there are many workouts available that do not involve going to a gym. Here are a few of my favorites:

You can do the exercises anywhere at any time that works for you, in the morning, in the evening in front of the TV, at the hotel when you are travelling. I vary my workouts quite a bit never doing the same sequence twice in a row. Try the exercises with the same method as Super Sets.

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